Fun with Video Games: City of Heroes

Fun with Video Games: City of Heroes

The game City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer roleplaying game where you become a four-color comic superhero and help save the world (or at least Paragon City, which is where the action takes place).

This is my hero, Agent Ratt. He's got a bit of the Miami Vice look going on, which separates him visually from the endless stream of cape-and-tights heroes running around Paragon City.

Here we see Agent Ratt hoofing it towards a mission. Low-level heroes have to walk everywhere or take public transportation, which can be rather demeaning but is certainly good exercise.

Look out, Agent Ratt! Bad guys at 12 o'clock! Oh well, too late. Luckily for Agent Ratt, death is not permanent in City of Heroes - just inconvenient.

Here we see Agent Ratt (left, in a clean white linen suit despite spending hours fighting in the sewers) and another unnamed hero showing off for the camera. Go team!

Here we see the infamous Dr. Vhazilok, evil supervillain genius, leader of the Vhazilok gang, and amateur Karaoke singer. While another unnamed hero confuses Dr. V with his bad rendition of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" Agent Ratt puts the final shot in to rid Paragon City of this horrible menace. For my troubles, I received a Level 16 BioHeart Single-Origin Cybernetic enhancement. I don't know what it does, but it sure sounds neat!